Well

 what on earth could they possibly be talking about?

Taiwan’s top security officials make secret trip to US for talks

(and I might add, just like the house taskforce preliminary report on the "assassination attempt"

why do you have to hear it from a forgein news source?

Guardian and FT anr both based in the UK.)

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"Foreign minister Lin Chia-lung and Joseph Wu, Taiwan’s national security adviser, have been in the Washington area this week for the talks that are known as the “special channel”, according to several people familiar with the visit."

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"The US and Taiwan have held the “special channel” talks for years, but their existence was first disclosed by the Financial Times in 2021 when the two sides, including Wu who was then foreign minister, met in Annapolis, Maryland. The channel is seen as a rare opportunity for a larger group of senior officials from both sides to hold detailed talks."

(You cant really figure out why now?)

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"The US has grown increasingly concerned about rising Chinese military activity around Taiwan."

(Thats about as mildly as one could try and state it.)

 "China held huge military exercises around the island, including firing ballistic missiles overhead for the first time, in 2022 just after then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei. It has intensified its military activity since the Pelosi visit."

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"Randy Schriver, a former top Pentagon Asia official, said the special channel was always important because of the limited contacts allowed because of the unofficial relationship”. But he said it was particularly so now given the increasingly assertive Chinese military activity near Taiwan."

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“A lot of people have the impression that [People’s Liberation Army] military activity spikes around events like the Pelosi visit or [presidential] inaugurations and then enters a normal and steady status quo, 

(Because it is what your government that knows better wants you to think. The war is another 3, 4, 7 years out remember?)

"but the PLA continues to do more things and evolve. We are seeing more night-time exercises and things like air-air refuelling on the eastern side of Taiwan,” he said, citing one example."

(Actually? that would be two examples.

"They are gonna hit em from both sides" somebody was sayin just recently...)

Godspeed everybody.

Journey well my friends.